Drowned puppies, stinking sprats, all drenched in mud,. Dead cats, and turnip tops, come tumbling down the flood.

"A Description of a City Shower" is a 1710 poem by Anglo-Irish poet Jonathan Swift. First appearing in the Tatler magazine in October of that same year, ...

Swift's poem begins with the anticipation of rain. He describes the many omens that are said to foretell a storm: a cat stops chasing its tail, coach prices ...

To draw in or contract. This is said in the poem to represent how the people walk through the town. They tuck themselves under their umbrellas to avoid getting ...

Headnote The poem was first published in the Tatler, no. 238 (17 Oct. 1710) and was reprinted in Pope and Swift's Miscellanies in Prose and Verse (1711), ...

“A Description of a City Shower” takes the form of an urban pastoral, a type of mock pastoral that takes traditional rural scenes and transplants them to the ...

Sep 5, 2023 · Johnathan Swift's "A Description of a City Shower" is a satire on the physical and moral condition of Swift's contemporary London.

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In "A Description of a City Shower", Swift dramatizes moral evil by describing a form of chaos created by the fall of rain and by depicting the reaction of the ...